Modern Express News 1 month ago he just underwent an artificial total hip replacement, 12 years he has been suffering from the severe pain of JIA, countless days he with hard study, volunteer service, never give up with the world to warm each other ... Recently, The 2021 "College Student Of the Year" of Nanjing University of Technology was announced, and the story of Yang Hao, a pharmaceutical major in the School of Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering of the university, touched many people. Although suffering from illness, Yang Hao has always faced life with a positive attitude, and recently, he was also exempted from graduate school qualifications at ShanghaiTech University with excellent results.
△ Yang Hao
With 12 years of illness, he promised the goal of "developing new drugs to cure his compatriots when he grows up"
Regarding childhood memories, Yang Hao's impression is mostly in taking medicine and being hospitalized. The other children's iron boxes contained chocolate, but his iron boxes contained medicine.
In 2009, 9-year-old Yang Hao suddenly had a high fever of 40 °C, and the joints of his whole body were painful and stiff, and after dozens of days of examination, he was diagnosed with "undead cancer" - juvenile idiopathic arthritis (systemic). Since then, he has been in the hospital for 8 months of the year, has a high fever 4-5 times a month, and takes more medicine than meals ...
Yang Hao has been with hormone drugs, surgery as a companion, his mother gave him a beautiful box of chocolate to fill the medicine, every time a box of medicine is opened, Yang Hao carefully put it in the box. He thought to himself that after eating this box, his illness would be better. As the days passed, the medicines in the medicine box changed again and again, and the place where Yang Hao and his mother sought medical treatment also went from their hometown of Yancheng to the provincial capital Nanjing, and then to the capital Beijing, and the treatment plan changed one set after another.
One day, Yang Hao suddenly found that the chocolate box was rusty, and the disease was not getting better, and he suddenly realized that this disease was not cured. What's worse, due to hormones, his height has always stayed at one meter and four meters, and hormone drugs have also led to low immunity, unexplained swelling of cheeks, multiple joint deformations, and the torture of disease has never left.
"For a while, because the veins on the arm were too thin, I could only collect blood from the neck, and at first I felt quite scary, and I got used to it later." Even though the treatment process was extremely difficult every time, Yang Hao never wanted to give up.
In the years of treatment in the hospital, Yang Hao met many people who were deeply tormented by illness like him, and he made a decision: "When he grows up, he will develop new drugs to let the compatriots who have suffered from diseases get rid of the torment of illness as soon as possible." "
In 2018, on the college entrance examination volunteer column, he chose the pharmaceutical engineering major of the School of Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering of Nanjing University of Technology.
△ Yang Hao won the award
Never giving up on studying, he has been sent to ShanghaiTech University for graduate school
In Yang Hao's bookcase, there are stacks of awards and certificates as many as the inspection reports.
"When I was a child, I often dreamed that the rest of my class was studying in class, but I was lying in a hospital bed receiving treatment, and then I cried with my mother." Although Yang Hao could only sit in class during the final exam for a semester, his learning never stopped. When the pain made it impossible for him to enter the classroom, he lay on the hospital bed to teach himself, "I don't complain, I can't get rid of the pain when I complain, not to mention my parents, as well as relatives and friends who care about me, have been with me without abandonment." "
From elementary school to high school, Yang Hao's grades have always been in the top three of the class. After going to college, Yang Hao began to receive biological therapy, once a month to go to the hospital to get a drip, although the pain has been alleviated, but over the years the side effects of hormone drugs have accumulated, resulting in necrosis of both femoral head, the severe pain brought by each step will make him sweat straight, can only rest for a while and then walk a little, normal people walk the road that can be reached in ten minutes, he has to walk at least half an hour.
Whenever he had to spend most of the next day going to the hospital for treatment, he recorded the contents of the books and put them on his mobile phone, and then put on headphones on the bus, when waiting in line for examination, and when he was dripping, he put on headphones to listen and learn repeatedly.
"It's hard, but grit your teeth and it's over." Yang Hao's profession ranked in the top 5%, and he won the National Inspirational Scholarship, the second prize of the National College Mathematics Competition, the second prize of the Ouyang Pingkai Scholarship and the first prize of the school for many times. Not long ago, Yang Hao also obtained the postgraduate qualification of ShanghaiTech University with excellent results.
△ Yang Hao participated in the volunteer activities of college students
Love is never absent, and he also passes on this warmth
Although each step is very difficult, Yang Hao said that each step is worth taking bravely. "Over the past ten years, I have listened to a lot of comforting words and received a lot of help." The care and love given by relatives and friends is the warmest existence in the depths of his memory, and it has also become an inexhaustible driving force for him to move forward.
At the end of October this year, due to necrosis of both femoral heads, Yang Hao underwent artificial total hip replacement surgery, and even bent his legs after surgery became a luxury. Roommate Chen Yaohang helped him wear socks and tie his shoelaces every day; during his junior year, he was depressed because he was worried about physical reasons affecting his further education and employment, Wu Jie, deputy secretary of the party committee of the college, patiently solved his doubts and encouraged him to stick to his dreams and continue his studies; in countless sick days, his parents cared all the time and did not give up the hope of every treatment; classmates Wang Zilu and Zhang Ben became his "handrails" when he went up and downstairs, "teachers" when he missed class, and "running errands" when buying medicines.
Having received so much love, Yang Hao also wants to pass on this warmth to others. Near the end of the term, as long as his body allows, he will open a "final small class" in the dormitory, review the key points for his roommates, teach problem solving ideas, and sometimes other students with the same major upstairs and downstairs will join in. Not only that, in the summer of his freshman year, Yang Hao participated in the volunteer activities of college students in his hometown Rural Commercial Bank to provide business consulting services to citizens; during the winter vacation of 2020, he wrote epidemic prevention and punch card diaries with millions of college students across the country.
"Yang Hao really doesn't 'worry', as far as his physical condition is concerned, he always wants to serve everyone, and he can't be persuaded." Referring to Yang Hao's joining the vanguard of party members in the school this summer, Wang Zilu said, "He helped teachers and students at the entrance of the canteen to measure temperature and verify health codes, stood for three hours at one stop, and went back to lie down for several days before slowing down. "
Yang Hao's positive attitude towards life has also infected many people. He wrote in the circle of friends: "Life is like chocolate in the box, you can't lose your original heart because of the mellowness, everyone has their own 15 minutes, after 15 minutes, in ordinary life, meet the extraordinary self, and firmly go on the stage of life." "
Correspondent Zhu Lin Chen Liujin Wang Zhijia Modern Express + reporter Li Nan
(Courtesy of the correspondent)